Ormond Beach man given 30-year prison sentence

An Ormond Beach man was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for armed robbery after a judge determined he was a prison releasee re-offender.

Roy Brinson, 33, was also given a 5-year sentence, to run concurrently, for felony battery, State Attorney's spokesman Chris Kelley said.

Brinson was convicted in October of robbing a salesman of a laptop computer and $740 worth of meat in a Sept. 25, 2008, incident in the 900 block of S. Nova Road in Ormond Beach.

At today's sentencing hearing, assistant State Attorney Bryan Feigenbaum argued that Brinson should be declared a re-offender because he was released from prison in December 2006. Circuit Court Judge James Clayton agreed and imposed the mandatory sentences, Kelley said.